edit: Just to clarify i know all companys are after money first and foremost but activison take it to whole other levels. For example closing down studios and moving teams over to CoD. Bollocks to actual creativity and making 'games' rather factory minions in a production line.

Obviously the highly esteemed cloud360 has discovered a massive conspiracy against Square Enix and the Final Fantasy series. In fact, he's provided enough evidence to warrant my boycotting of the entire games industry with the exception of FF games indefinitely.

The dislike of Activision is due to their incessant whoring of COD, their rip-off DLC prices, the statements and actions of Kotick over the years, and their irritating habit of closing down developers who release good, original titles which don't sell a shit-tonne out the gate despite really poor marketing support (Blur springs to mind). And then there's the ripoff prices that they charge for new releases and meagre DLC.

With Square (or Squeenix as they are now), it's a combination of over-reliance on established franchises which have stagnated and in many cases taken backwards steps (such as FF), and that their "original" RPGs simply haven't been particularly good. And then there's the travesty that was FF14, which has soured a lot of people's remaining goodwill towards them. Their tech may have moved with the times, but their game design hasn't, so many of their games feel very unoriginal and dated before they are even released.

Square-Enix are just shit. I don't think anybody really hates them as a company. They just don't make very good games any more and most of the talented people behind their biggest franchises no longer work there.

It's hardly a sparse, poorly populated hate list when it comes to publishers:

Ubisoft - Obvious reasons, DRM most recently, they made my shitlist in 2003/04 it took everybody else a few years to catch up and stop disagreeing. When I got a glitch that made a game impossible to complete, or my character fell through the floor into the phantom zone it was always a Ubisoft game.

Capcom - Reviled from all quarters disgruntled early adopters of games like MVC 3, Resident Evil fans, Devil May Cry fans, Megaman fans, there's no end of factions with an axe to grind. Known affectionately by the embarrassingly unimaginative monicker Crapcom. They absolutely deserve it.

Namco Bandai - More often referred to as Scamco, high priests of anguish when it comes to inflicting boneheaded release decisions on fans of the IP they jealously keep prisoner. You can choke on more Dead to Rights and Tekken instead etc. etc.

It would actually be easier to list the publishers that aren't disliked by significant portions of their audience. Square Enix actually get off pretty lightly in comparison to the disappointing product they serve up and how far downward they've slid.

Edited by Cappy at 00:48:02 14-01-2012

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